Civil War Era In 1860, the name changed from Public Square to Monumental Park after a statue of Battle of Lake Erie hero Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry w...
Post-Civil War In 1879, Charles F. Brush drew international attention to Public Square by demonstrating one of the world’s first successful electric str...
Post World War II There have been countless plans to renovate and revitalize Public Square, however, there always seemed to be a reason why the plan couldn...
Pre Civil War Back in 1796, when the Connecticut Western Reserve still had control over what is now Ohio, Moses Cleaveland and a group of his surveyors...
